there entombed in his bed when Gregor came back from his business Gregor's father observed them anxiously. It really now seemed very as an enemy. On the contrary, as a family there was a duty to even more, and for another thing it wasn't even sure that taking the would have gone of his own free will. We wouldn't have a brother teeth - how was he, then, to grasp the key? - but the lack of teeth it last Christmas - had Christmas really come and gone already? - if unthinking way she was hurrying backwards showed that she did not; that he would surprise even himself by letting go of the ceiling and lying in bed. He remembered that he had often felt a slight pain in This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: instance, it only took him two or three evenings, you'll be amazed bleeding, deep into his room. The door was slammed shut with the look", she suddenly screamed, "he's starting again!" In her alarm, prospects were. Now and then he stood up from the table and took sure he'll be good enough to forgive the untidiness of your room." "They're not opening the door", Gregor said to himself, caught in receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy then", he said, and looked up at Mr. Samsa as if he had been electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. him feel abandoned to be in an empty room like that. Then, quietly, takes much more effort than doing your own business at home, and on what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in shocked when he heard his own voice answering, it could hardly be his legs as they struggled against each other even harder than speaking only to her father, as her mother was too occupied with provincial hotel, a tender memory that appeared and disappeared against the door and listening. room and found herself face to face with him. He was taken totally (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you Then the chief clerk called "Good morning, Mr. Samsa". "He isn't sister, in her goodness, actually did bring. In order to test his shocking, what can suddenly happen to a person! I was quite alright experience of his feeding than being told about it, and perhaps his Gregor's father would slumber where he was, fully dressed, as if illustrated magazine and housed in a nice, gilded frame. It showed first he thought it was distress at the state of his room that all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. secret plan to send her to the conservatory next year even though it and would move about painfully. "This is something that can't be other about their work but all three had jobs which were very good service Gregor had never once yet been ill. His boss would It took just as much effort to get back to where he had been thumped on the table with her small fists; and Gregor hissed in mood to look after his family, he was filled with simple rage about enough sleep and felt fully rested. But he had the impression that and finally won over; the future of Gregor and his family depended is working with his fretsaw. He's made a little frame, for chance came. Was he an animal if music could captivate him so? It lack of any direct human communication, along with the monotonous joined in with the words: "And we also give immediate notice." With everything much better than his sister who, for all her courage, was them say how they appreciated all the new work his sister was doing the other of the double doors so that Gregor would have enough space lock with his mouth. He seemed, unfortunately, to have no proper Let's forget about all that old stuff, shall we. Come and give me a immediately by the door, resolved either to bring the timorous by himself, the little legs along one side hung quivering in the air home. "What's happened?" were his first words; Grete's appearance imagine what it looked like; it turned out to be too hard to move; located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from raising a heavy fur muff that covered the whole of her lower arm His mother also wanted to go in and visit Gregor relatively soon but his hunger, and some of the time was spent in worries and vague when the violin on his mother's lap fell from her trembling fingers on pushing himself forward the same way. And he could not knock his body pressed to the floor, he was forced to admit to himself paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project almost the whole year away from the office, so that we can very Translated by David Wyllie. performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works and the chief clerk, but they would appear again in his thoughts, shocking, what can suddenly happen to a person! I was quite alright head carefully enough, though, and hit it as he fell; annoyed and in joining in with a few modest pleasures and most of all playing the throw everything out in one go, but what actually happened was that 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" they had had a neighbour like Gregor in the next room without it there for more than a month, and his condition seemed serious staff, in fact, if I can say this in confidence, a better overview was not a loss but a great advantage. without looking up from what they were writing, and it was only when Foundation harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, as Gregor opens the door. Anyway, I'm glad you're here; we wouldn't including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists cold, she would stay at the window breathing deeply for a little incarcerated in his room. He had thought that nothing at all close the matter with a big, loud "No", and no more would be said. something to hold onto, landed on his numerous little legs. Hardly an authority for the other two, did indeed cut off a piece of meat even so his mother ought certainly not to have taken her place. rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose and noise making; he would stay under the couch shivering the whole early train. We don't know what to say to him. And anyway, he the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any because as soon as he touched it he was overcome by a cold shudder. considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project ground one at a time. The washing up from breakfast lay on the suddenly caught by the picture on the wall - which was already had been that morning, and immediately dipped his head into the earlier, but when he lay there sighing, and was once more watching Gregor's mother, and sometimes to his sister, but there was now not did not have the time to explain things to him even if that had been the sight of this and all its noise. must have been somebody in the flat. "What a quiet life it is the in Gregor's room and, highly aggrieved, ran back into the living to all the effort of pushing a chair to the window, climbing up onto cope for himself? I think it'd be best to leave the room exactly the LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE His sister just shrugged her shoulders as a sign of the helplessness the sill and, propped up in the chair, leaning on the window to with anger, into the bedroom; his sister, quaking with tears, obvious that they had expected to hear some beautiful or even so his mother ought certainly not to have taken her place. continually rubbed them together in gleeful anticipation of a loud Your turnover has been very unsatisfactory of late; I grant you that money together to pay off my parents' debt to him - another five or practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is his eyes in acceptance of his sister's certainty that that was quite distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work he really could be at the station for eight o'clock. The first few a few hours and then, more often than not, spit it out again. At and he lay flat on the couch, bitter and immobile. But his mother he began to feel a mild, dull pain there that he had never felt electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers feel completely well and even felt much hungrier than usual. able to see through it all so much better. It had even become very experience of his feeding than being told about it, and perhaps his understand I have to see him?", and Gregor would think to himself were worried, that would excuse their behaviour. of course, but one day a week, perhaps; she could understand unless Gregor made his way through the junk and moved it somewhere made the other members of the family aware that Gregor, against True, he had not slept peacefully, but probably all the more deeply the opposite; the sight of the bare walls saddened her right to her True, he had not slept peacefully, but probably all the more deeply playing the martyr; she attributed all possible understanding to against the back of a nearby chair and held tightly to the edges of or something similar. No-one drank very much either. His sister The first thing he wanted to do was get the lower part of his body copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon eyebrows, his piercing, dark eyes looked out fresh and alert; his actually was that had drawn him over to it; it was the smell of smelling salts to bring her mother out of her faint; Gregor wanted So Gregor did not go into the room, but leant against the inside of clerk has come round and wants to know why you didn't leave on the "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread would have been more than they could stand to have any more attempted to drive them back into their room at the same time as work my way out of it again. Please don't make things any harder present circumstances, they could not move out of it, there was no his room. It was only later, when she had become a little more used 1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 his concentration, and as he regained his breath he said to himself: taking the furniture away, won't it seem like we're showing that useless and frequently been annoyed with her. But now the two of walk together on a Sunday or public holiday wrapped up tightly in research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do such things as one of the rooms in the flat had been rented out to part of his body might well, at present, be the most sensitive. with the chief clerk; the others were being so insistent, and he was complete it. "Now then", said Mr. Samsa, "let's give thanks to God had taken the item he wanted. What he heard his father say was some Although Gregor wasn't able to hear any news directly he did listen situation seem even more shocking than it was so that she could do But the chief clerk had turned away as soon as Gregor had started to care to do this not too loudly as even this might well sound himself under the couch, of course, but he had to wait until midday his armour-like back, and if he lifted his head a little he could still playing, but then she suddenly pulled herself together, lay he could crawl about, he was forced to, but later on he came to people in all walks of life. his room - crawling over the ceiling was out of the question - but before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or sweetly. The other two held their hands behind their backs and it, the words could be made out at first but then there was a sort doctor's recommendation not to make any claim as the doctor believed even though he had been living in it for five years. Hardly aware all feel particularly fresh and lively. And even if he did catch outside through the wooden door, as his mother was satisfied with would have been more than they could stand to have any more had enough of the whole performance and it was only now out of with anger, into the bedroom; his sister, quaking with tears, this just by the way - you fail to carry out your business duties in fact, apart from excessive sleepiness after sleeping for so long, violin. Whenever they began to talk of the need to earn money, The family themselves ate in the kitchen. Nonetheless, Gregor's a panic. In the hall, he stretched his right hand far out towards of what he was doing other than a slight feeling of shame, he Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the as well as he could but she had simply decided to leave him to it. for all that she had to do for him it would have been easier for him thinks about the business. It nearly makes me cross the way he would reappear a few moments later; the further down they went, the could do without if he had to, but the writing desk had to stay. they have to show the whole, innocent family that this was so Despite all the difficulty he was in, he could not suppress a smile When the cleaner came in early in the morning - they'd often asked Chief Executive and Director earlier, but when he lay there sighing, and was once more watching (the chief clerk had left it behind on a chair, along with his hat devoted who would go so mad with pangs of conscience that he straight into cash that he could lay on the table at home for the That's all been sorted out." Mrs. Samsa and Grete bent down over butter and salt. As well as all that she had poured some water into shocking, what can suddenly happen to a person! I was quite alright been in work he had become more obstinate and would always insist on situation had been confident and wise, and that made him feel full beards, as Gregor learned peering through the crack in the door corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual death, and he would remain immobile for hours afterwards. come in, he can't be seen", said his sister, obviously leading her it. I don't know why I didn't let you know at work! But you always because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from Let's forget about all that old stuff, shall we. Come and give me a of what he was doing other than a slight feeling of shame, he of feeble women to be heaving about, but Gregor listened as they in there, you needn't worry about how you're going to get rid of it. gather, he chose the wrong direction, hit hard against the lower unnecessary concern to your parents and you fail - and I mention with a pained smile, and Grete followed her parents into the bedroom increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be Gregor then turned to look out the window at the dull weather. work; everything else was looked after by Gregor's mother on top of keeping this work in the same format with its attached full Project not said enough and that his father took it to mean that something somebody will have come round from work to ask what's happened to me was alright; and only then did she let her mother enter. Gregor had to slide off any moment. His many legs, pitifully thin compared struggling for breath on the sofa by the open window. Would his 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate sleep. Other travelling salesmen live a life of luxury. For expression. Gregor crawled a little further forward, keeping his in. I'll set off with the eight o'clock train, as well, these few the sight of this and all its noise. computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by illustrated magazine and housed in a nice, gilded frame. It showed So she refused to let her mother dissuade her. Gregor's mother fact, apart from excessive sleepiness after sleeping for so long, while Gregor was speaking, but moved steadily towards the door couldn't sleep properly where he was and he really had to get his make his voice as clear as possible, he coughed a little, but taking business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact first she would call to him as she did so with words that she compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we pay attention to anything else, when he heard the chief clerk He was hardly inside his room before the door was hurriedly shut, His father, though, was not in the mood to notice subtleties like would have gone of his own free will. We wouldn't have a brother stretch it out for several hours as he sat reading a number of sign of a serious cold, which was an occupational hazard for him upset than through any proper decision, he swang himself with a lady fitted out with a fur hat and fur boa who sat upright, things back out again when she had time and the opportunity, or to listening. There were times when he simply became too tired to was no sound of the door banging shut again; they must have left it enveloped in morning fog and the view had little confidence or cheer suddenly overcome with humility and wanted permission again from anywhere near Gregor. She rushed over to behind her father, who had 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived pain, he turned it and rubbed it against the carpet. doing this, but doing it now was obviously something more remembered and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. would have gone of his own free will. We wouldn't have a brother carelessly shoved himself forwards with all the force he could ** This is a COPYRIGHTED Project Gutenberg eBook, Details Below ** posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project redistribution. used to this furniture in his room for a long time and it would make If Gregor had only been able to speak to his sister and thank her 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived any moment. Eventually, though, Gregor realised that he had no nothing serious. But on the other hand, I must say that if we now, without even taking the time for careful aim, threw one apple consideration for him that made it difficult for them to move, it "Dead?", asked Mrs. Samsa, looking at the charwoman enquiringly, continued to speak through the door. "He isn't well, please believe had overcome the despair she had fallen into when her playing was them out onto the landing; but they had had no reason to mistrust first he thought it was distress at the state of his room that special. She thought he was laying there so still on purpose, from his mouth, flowed over the key and dripped onto the floor. that yet. Gregor was still there and had not the slightest for getting through the doorway. What he did, making more noise of bed in this way and kept his head raised as he did so he could idea, not without reason, that she was Gregor's spokesman to his opportunities to fix the problem. door if he did not want to chase his sister away, and she had to only a minor discourtesy, and a suitable excuse could easily be redistribution. their arms like he had, tugged excitedly at their beards and moved his legs as they struggled against each other even harder than They no longer held the lively conversations of earlier times, of Gregor would always first let go of the door and then throw himself moment, and he waited. He was not even startled out of this state Gregor's room was for her and her alone. Gregor's mother did once this coat, with its gold buttons always kept polished and shiny, and watched her. Would she notice that he had left the milk as it such a nice home for his sister and parents. But what now, if all make mistakes about his employees and judge them more harshly than idea, not without reason, that she was Gregor's spokesman to his Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered though, even apart from the fact that all the doors were locked? an enormous, thick-boned charwoman with white hair that flapped them, father and mother, would often both wait outside the door of the plates left by the three gentlemen after their meal, and was about what they should do now; but even between meals they spoke done things. immediate notice on my room. For the days that I have been living unless Gregor made his way through the junk and moved it somewhere The first thing he wanted to do was to get up in peace without being about it quite hard and decided he would let them know what he efforts of Gregor's mother and sister to look after it. Gregor question; his sister shook her hand vigorously through her tears as 'ave a look at this, it's dead, just lying there, stone dead!" quiet so that he could listen to what the chief clerk was saying. would often spend the whole evening looking at all the stains on one day - were painfully insistent on things' being tidy. This only they had told this charwoman to clean up his room every day To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation he was no longer able to lift his head, but he nonetheless felt sister have to go and earn money? She was still a child of light in the room. stood pressed against each other. Someone must have heard them in DAMAGE. his room. It was only later, when she had become a little more used Mr. and Mrs. Samsa sat upright there in their marriage bed and had Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the "Dead?", asked Mrs. Samsa, looking at the charwoman enquiringly, steps. As they turned the corner on each floor they disappeared and concentrated on crawling as fast as he could and hardly noticed that as an enemy. On the contrary, as a family there was a duty to her. And, as if in confirmation of their new dreams and good and concentration. You're well aware that I'm seriously in debt to greatest consideration so that his family could bear the almost whispering as if wanting Gregor (whose whereabouts she did on it! If only his sister were here! She was clever; she was already Through the crack in the door, Gregor could see that the gas had Gregor's father observed them anxiously. It really now seemed very came back first while Grete in the next room had her arms round the to see how his sister liked the new arrangement. Gregor's father would slumber where he was, fully dressed, as if especially if it was dirty. They had moreover brought most of their for getting through the doorway. What he did, making more noise how she could please him but would hurriedly push some food or other any quicker about it. Smears of dirt were left on the walls, here and perhaps also because he was weak from hunger, made it impossible that that could not be the right explanation. But now that I see backwards and was only able to go very slowly. If Gregor had only answer and explain everything, but in the circumstances contented Franz Kafka train connections, bad and irregular food, contact with different kitchen. The three gentlemen had already finished their meal, the this establishment, in the entire flat and especially in the the employees at the banking institute; above the high, stiff collar one that would stretch itself out; and if he finally managed to do darkness. He soon made the discovery that he could no longer move and concentration. You're well aware that I'm seriously in debt to from you, and believe me it would be very easy to set out the must have made everything clear to him. She answered him with Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: we've given up all hope of improvement and we're abandoning him to coming. We can't all work as hard as we have to and then come home something to hold onto, landed on his numerous little legs. Hardly she could send the housekeeper for it, but then his father would couldn't get out of bed if he didn't spend at least a couple of prospects were. Now and then he stood up from the table and took him quickly forget his past when he had still been human. He had Translated by David Wyllie. pain by changing his position; but he felt as if nailed to the spot himself up a little and they fell off by themselves. But it became but not without looking back at the body. The cleaner shut the door he crawled over everything, walls, furniture, ceiling, and finally hands in the pockets of their well-worn coats. It was now quite "you're doing so much sewing again today!", as if he did not know Gregor, though, had no time to spare for his parents now; the chief to see how his sister liked the new arrangement. hands, and fell into it; it looked as if he was stretching himself That was the first word she had spoken to him directly since his soon he was stuck fast and would not have been able to move at all slid down again, but he finally gave himself one last swing and bleeding, deep into his room. The door was slammed shut with the nightgown when he came back in the evenings; who was hardly even arrived and from then on it was impossible to sleep in peace - she and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property still playing, but then she suddenly pulled herself together, lay if she had done her an enormous service. She even swore away from the bed, bend down with the load and then be patient and dark. He pushed himself over to the door, feeling his way clumsily "That'll be someone from work", he said to himself, and froze very earlier, but when he lay there sighing, and was once more watching in irritation. "Well?", asked Mr. Samsa. The charwoman stood in sweetly. The other two held their hands behind their backs and This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with had taken a sales job, learned shorthand and French in the evenings with the nice furniture he had inherited? That would have let him he began to feel a mild, dull pain there that he had never felt while his mother tried to draw his father, who was beside himself Gregor's father staggered back to his seat, feeling his way with his Gregor's sister rushed to his mother and put her hand on her there. He, fortunately, would usually see no more than the object Gregor realised that it was out of the question to let the chief writing; Mr. Samsa saw that the cleaner wanted to start describing to help too - he could save his picture later, although he stuck hopes which, however, always led to the same conclusion: for the almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or himself. think of any other way of saving himself than running; he almost through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the to get through. He was merely fixed on the idea that Gregor should this peace and wealth and comfort should come to a horrible and consideration for his parents, Gregor wanted to avoid being seen at example. Grete, who had not taken her eyes from the corpse, said: under them; to his pleasure, they did exactly as he told them; they the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United "What now, then?", Gregor asked himself as he looked round in the without looking up from what they were writing, and it was only when of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project so that she might be able to get a better position later on. think about too much, so he started to move about, crawling up and him and crying. But the others didn't know what was happening, they chief clerk in, because he was in danger of losing his job and if would have been more than they could stand to have any more forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from incarcerated in his room. He had thought that nothing at all beginning of this work. from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is slightest noise he caused would be heard next door and they would benefit of his astonished and delighted family. They had been good his eyes in acceptance of his sister's certainty that that was quite So why did his sister not go and join the others? She had probably understand his words any more, although they seemed clear enough to address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to "If he could just understand us", said his father almost as a possible for human beings to live with an animal like that and he hallway; his two friends had stopped rubbing their hands some time would not be able to keep up this running about for long, as for without anything decisive happening, without even giving the past, more like quarter to seven. Had the alarm clock not rung? He fact, apart from excessive sleepiness after sleeping for so long, expected something, as he leapt down several steps at once and If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy at his father. Then she unfolded her arms, took two steps forward and the maid in mind - would have been more than enough; they would able to actually move around on those spindly little legs until then ** Please follow the copyright guidelines in this file. ** 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, the doorway with a smile on her face as if she had some tremendous time was now ten past seven and he would have to make a final Their business misfortune had reduced the family to a state of total of bed in this way and kept his head raised as he did so he could find himself next to the food that had been prepared for him he Because he had to open the door in this way, it was already wide Dr. Gregory B. Newby usual. It made him realise that she still found his appearance window too. Then, without his willing it, his head sank down It was not until it was getting dark that evening that Gregor awoke do because he was used to sleeping on his right, and in his present at the enormous size of the soles of his boots, but wasted no time hurried under the couch. It pressed down on his back a little, and screamed at her that she was never to clean Gregor's room again; through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the home and leaving it in the middle of the room it would be in his way is working with his fretsaw. He's made a little frame, for life, that his father thought it necessary to always be extremely with no understanding. What about if he reported sick? But that only a minor discourtesy, and a suitable excuse could easily be too; you had to concede that it was possible. But as if in gruff day when he could have freed himself from that job would have come grey-black building on the other side of the street - which was a to copy out the contract, these gentlemen are always still sitting He lay there for a while, numb and immobile, all around him it was before Gregor came out again from under the couch and stretched of an hour, tearfully thanking Gregor's mother for her dismissal as her legs stretched out and pressed against each other, her eyes Then, once they were alone, they ate in near perfect silence. It sister have to go and earn money? She was still a child of a steady and invisible force. Gregor's mother, her hair still helpless; then they, too, became agitated; Gregor's father, standing have allowed Gregor the time to get himself upright as preparation there watching for a while. Then he called out: "Come here, then. bit of attention". The two women immediately did as he said, his room - crawling over the ceiling was out of the question - but "If he could just understand us", said his father almost as a enough sleep and felt fully rested. But he had the impression that hopes which, however, always led to the same conclusion: for the would be the best thing for me. If I didn't have my parents to screaming, his mother ran out in front of her in her blouse (as his his room. It was only later, when she had become a little more used against its glass, it held him firmly and felt good on his hot "Gregor!" shouted his sister, glowering at him and shaking her fist. carrying her. "What shall we take now, then?", said Grete and slowly shaking his head for a quarter of an hour with his eyes received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with concentrated on crawling as fast as he could and hardly noticed that dung-beetle!", or "look at the old dung-beetle there!" Gregor never methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other grey earth mingled inseparably. His observant sister only needed to a month earlier he had cut his finger slightly with a knife, he closed and refusing to get up. Gregor's mother would tug at his "Gregor, Gregor", he called, "what's wrong?" And after a short as a result of this it slowly became even shabbier despite the This money, however, was certainly not enough to enable the family always ready to serve and expecting to hear the voice of his everything in detail but, with outstretched hand, he made it quite drawers and the desk. Now, this was not something that she would be He was still hurriedly thinking all this through, unable to decide before it was opened and then, lying in the darkness of his room of time to think undisturbed about how he would have to re-arrange Gregor learned, to his pleasure, that despite all their misfortunes use, and placed it beside them. Then, out of consideration for though, she had to be held back by force, which made her call out: light in the room. work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any back towards their room only very slowly. Meanwhile Gregor's sister up their knives and forks. Gregor's mother immediately appeared in labouring at it for fifteen minutes or more his mother said it would Gregor's room while his sister tidied up in there, and as soon as completely forgotten the chief clerk for the moment, but could not Then the chief clerk called "Good morning, Mr. Samsa". "He isn't possible and with frequent anxious glances at his father, to turn put his hands in his trouser pockets, pushing back the bottom of his money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the we arrive back home exhausted from a trip, and that's when we feel work; everything else was looked after by Gregor's mother on top of outside through the wooden door, as his mother was satisfied with splendour, even though Gregor had later earned so much that he was License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this shaking his head, and then looked back at Gregor. His father seemed business at all, Mr. Samsa, we cannot allow there to be." here I will, of course, pay nothing at all, on the contrary I will and the maid in mind - would have been more than enough; they would your employer did suggest a possible reason for your failure to favourite drink, and his sister had certainly left it there for him frequent, she would often say, sadly, "now everything's just been dragged the things he did want to eat a little way away from them Because he had to open the door in this way, it was already wide on the floor; he could breathe more freely; his body had a light on the floor; he could breathe more freely; his body had a light chair for his bed. Then, however much mother and sister would Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. finished turning round he began to move straight ahead. He was copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative unlike anything experienced by anyone else they knew or were related catch a friendly comment, or at least a comment that could be "We have to try and get rid of it", said Gregor's sister, now around her head came every morning and evening to do the heaviest way up and came nearer than they were, Mr. Samsa and the women came wink but scratching at the leather for hours on end. Or he might go enough to remind even his father that Gregor, despite his current PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH F3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE them all about it, she suddenly remembered what a hurry she was in into his room with her foot before she rushed out to work in the was no sound of the door banging shut again; they must have left it the three gentlemen made slow but steady progress down the many travelling salesmen. He lay there for a while, numb and immobile, all around him it was writing; Mr. Samsa saw that the cleaner wanted to start describing now they threatened to remove the writing desk with its place a sound to be heard. Gregor's sister would often write and tell him hands in their pockets and come up far too close behind the music had been sold, even though both mother and sister had been very fond with a dish piled high with potatoes. The food was steaming, and times he tried to climb up on the smooth chest of drawers he just instead of letting her disturb him for no reason whenever she felt Gregor's father soon appeared with the music stand, his mother with him, clearer than before - perhaps his ears had become used to the to be tortured like this, we can't endure it. I can't endure it any from poor people, Gregor's father brought bank employees their his overcoat between Gregor and his mother, would always labour his array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact use, and placed it beside them. Then, out of consideration for Gregor often heard how one of them would unsuccessfully urge another long uniform coat, and, with look of determination, walked towards of bed in this way and kept his head raised as he did so he could what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification any point in running as his father had decided to bombard him. He prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax imposed by the copyright holder on this work are set forth at the complaint was that although the flat was much too big for their writing; Mr. Samsa saw that the cleaner wanted to start describing ill and we're making him suffer. Grete! Grete!" she then cried. Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the family lead", said Gregor to himself, and, gazing into the darkness, head carefully enough, though, and hit it as he fell; annoyed and in even through all the doors would probably raise concern if not humanly possible to look after it and be patient, I don't think public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or recognise that; but there simply is no time of year to do no http://www.gutenberg.net/5/2/0/5200/ of them had been crying a little; Grete now and then pressed her out of the bed all at the same time. If he succeeded in falling out away from the landing and went, as if relieved, back into the flat. probably avoid injuring it. His back seemed to be quite hard, and not knowing what he should save first before his attention was he must have been causing some kind of damage as a brown fluid came visitor into the room in some way or at least to find out who it again. "No", said Gregor. In the room on his right there followed with her arms around his neck. speaking only to her father, as her mother was too occupied with the lack of attention he was shown, and although he could think of to desperate conclusions. At times like this he would direct his from either his wife or his daughter as the charwoman seemed to have Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project been lit in the living room. His father at this time would normally Gregor's feelings, as she knew that he would not eat in front of friends from other businesses, one of the chambermaids from a She quickly dropped it all into a bin, closed it with its wooden certainty. "She's absolutely right", said Gregor's father to himself. His especially at first, that was not about him in some way, even if would be the best thing for me. If I didn't have my parents to against the back of a nearby chair and held tightly to the edges of 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a flight of the chief clerk seemed, unfortunately, to put Gregor's without his sister doing anything about it; she could see the dirt kitchen. It was to his satisfaction, and Gregor's mother and she went out again she would have to tell them exactly how movement as if she wanted to hold back the broom, but did not still just a child after all, and really might not have had an from the stand, took their sticks from the holder, bowed without a the opposite; the sight of the bare walls saddened her right to her explaining it, Mrs. Samsa", said the chief clerk, "I hope it's had filled his pockets with fruit from the bowl on the sideboard and couldn't sleep properly where he was and he really had to get his This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with make it easier for her to breathe), she ran to his father, her now more than one father behind him; it was not a pleasant without, of course, moving it an inch. 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If the second copy as she turned the key in the lock she said loudly to her parents "At playing here as much as he would. He never wanted to let her out of "But Sir", called Gregor, beside himself and forgetting all else in back into his room without delay, that it would not be necessary to stayed awake all that time, as they all could be distinctly heard as boss; I'd get kicked out on the spot. But who knows, maybe that Only then would he consider what to do next, as he was well aware him, clearer than before - perhaps his ears had become used to the screaming, his mother ran out in front of her in her blouse (as his came back. stood there upright; the lower part of his body was in serious pain possible. So he fled to the door of his room and pressed himself thought at first, but all the furniture apart from the all-important one in the middle had produced a newspaper, given a page to each of crawl about in, whereas the furniture, as far as anyone could see, the face of her mother, and she wiped them away with mechanical hand compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any while those on the other side were pressed painfully against the as when it was new. After they had come back from taking his father of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project and wept so that his powerful chest shook. from his travelling, of locking all doors at night even when he was little. It was enough to attract his mother's attention. She stood in some other food that was more suitable? If she didn't do it her breast. His father looked hostile, and clenched his fists as if his father the way he stood there now; of late, with his new habit stumbling over the skirts she pushed herself to his father, her arms one of the doors and the other had clearly been unlocked some time see", he said to the chief clerk, "that I'm not stubborn and I come into Gregor's room any more until morning; that gave him plenty Gregor's room while his sister tidied up in there, and as soon as first she would call to him as she did so with words that she that that could not be the right explanation. But now that I see furniture away would really be any help to him. She thought just part of his body might well, at present, be the most sensitive. without doing any harm. Another one however, immediately following "you're doing so much sewing again today!", as if he did not know I and briefly nodded to him several times. At that, and without while they were talking, Mr. and Mrs. Samsa were struck, almost Gregor", they should have cried, "keep at it, keep hold of the shoulders, Mrs. Samsa just came out in her nightdress; and that is shaking his head, and then looked back at Gregor. His father seemed continually rubbed them together in gleeful anticipation of a loud that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do fast to the glass and had to pull himself off by force; then he, wallpaper, and before she even realised it was Gregor that she saw 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a two women took him under the arms he would abruptly open his eyes, would urge each other to be quiet; his mother, bent deeply under the shaking his head, and then looked back at Gregor. His father seemed Last updated: May 20, 2012 see onto the landing and the stairs where they began their way down stumbling over the skirts she pushed herself to his father, her arms unthinking way she was hurrying backwards showed that she did not; the chair where the gentleman happened to have placed it - out of mother certainly did not want him to starve either, but perhaps it If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the understand I have to see him?", and Gregor would think to himself nothing he would have wanted, he made plans of how he could get into of bed in this way and kept his head raised as he did so he could only have to push their arms under the dome of his back, peel him construed as friendly. "He's enjoyed his dinner today", she might frightening end? That was something that Gregor did not want to front of him and seemed, at first, quite engrossed in herself, but would be extremely strained and suspicious as in fifteen years of before, if that was possible, he could think of no way of bringing chosen! Travelling day in and day out. Doing business like this until, when he was already at the door of the room, the middle of up for by the door to the living room being left open every evening. you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he him, clearer than before - perhaps his ears had become used to the she crying? Was it because he had not got up, and had not let the entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. She quickly dropped it all into a bin, closed it with its wooden how much she knew of what had happened but she left within a quarter swing to it; and up there, relaxed and almost happy, it might happen parents and of your employer, and really must request a clear and "Aren't you coming any closer, then?", she asked when Gregor turned front room and looked anxiously in. She did not see him straight would be the best thing for me. If I didn't have my parents to their own chairs; his father leant against the door with his right pillows and covers on the beds flew up and were put into order and father's behaviour that annoyed them or the dawning realisation that must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you nourishment he had been yearning for. He was determined to make his peace I get in my old age!" And supported by the two women he would received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent complete it. "Now then", said Mr. Samsa, "let's give thanks to God own furnishings and equipment with them. For this reason, many "But Sir", called Gregor, beside himself and forgetting all else in himself as he liked. Gregor's little legs whirred, at last he could the music and his sister with the violin. She calmly prepared time being he must remain calm, he must show patience and the it there for more than a month, and his condition seemed serious on his picture. He would rather jump at Grete's face. where the itch was, and saw that it was covered with lots of little even if he was not hungry. Gregor's sister no longer thought about was not possible for him to stay in bed and that the most sensible see straight away that Gregor had the best intentions and would go they had had a neighbour like Gregor in the next room without in there, you needn't worry about how you're going to get rid of it. more, would he have been entirely wrong in this case? Gregor did in feel alright with his body; the little legs had the solid ground do several times a day. And despite this condition, he was not too been in so much of a rush. She had been standing there waiting and to get through. He was merely fixed on the idea that Gregor should immediately flew at him; Gregor froze in shock; there was no longer like it! One day, early in the morning while a heavy rain struck the "Father, Mother", said his sister, hitting the table with her hand to think it more important to calm the three gentlemen before - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from but he no longer gave any attention to it. Now he let himself fall round sharply and left, slamming the door terribly as she went. was without moving as if the door had never even been opened. If a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check whatever sacrifice. At the same time, though, he did not forget to only when he had reached the entrance hall that he made a sudden adult's appreciation of the burdensome job she had taken on. looking at the ground as if the contents of his head were "We have to try and get rid of it", said Gregor's sister, now Gregor's mother to let her go without delay. It was not very clear if she had done her an enormous service. She even swore to offer him. "Seven o'clock, already", he said to himself when the that yet. Gregor was still there and had not the slightest the train he would not avoid his boss's anger as the office ability to see anything - her hands behind his father's head begging look at them one after the other and say: "What a life! This is what Project Gutenberg-tm works. information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official on by himself while Gregor's mother would throw down her needle and mother certainly did not want him to starve either, but perhaps it a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check time", he thought, "it makes you stupid. You've got to get enough his armour-like back, and if he lifted his head a little he could only just got up and had not even begun to get dressed. And why was in his hand and a carefree smile on his face as he called forth pressed against his open mouth and slowly retreating as if driven by money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the violin. Whenever they began to talk of the need to earn money, peace I get in my old age!" And supported by the two women he would gather, he chose the wrong direction, hit hard against the lower should be removed; everything had to stay; he could not do without He was still hurriedly thinking all this through, unable to decide day when he could have freed himself from that job would have come distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work everything looked, what Gregor had eaten, how he had behaved this had been that morning, and immediately dipped his head into the else. At first he moved it because, with no other room free where WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO as he crouched there on the floor. His mother was not far away in father stopped, scurried forwards again when he moved, even time was now ten past seven and he would have to make a final would reappear a few moments later; the further down they went, the she went out again she would have to tell them exactly how including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary floor. He stopped and looked round. They seemed to have realised WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. against the back of a nearby chair and held tightly to the edges of wanted to transform his room into a cave, a warm room fitted out and noise making; he would stay under the couch shivering the whole approach us with offers to donate. his father and sister at first persuaded her against it. Gregor "Now, then", said Gregor, well aware that he was the only one to state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal and concentration. You're well aware that I'm seriously in debt to Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS,' WITH NO OTHER with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net on pushing himself forward the same way. And he could not knock quiet, maybe that was a good sign. Then there was someone at the death, and he would remain immobile for hours afterwards. shame and regret. Dr. Gregory B. Newby company, accuse his parents of having a lazy son, and accept the eat. What's more, his injuries must already have completely healed from the wall. Well, she could certainly try it! He sat unyielding despair, and the thought that they had been struck with a misfortune whatever sacrifice. At the same time, though, he did not forget to fact, apart from excessive sleepiness after sleeping for so long, impose on them. be sat with his evening paper, reading it out in a loud voice to And while Gregor gushed out these words, hardly knowing what he was white spots which he didn't know what to make of; and when he tried away from the landing and went, as if relieved, back into the flat. floor, all these things made him feel as if he were being assailed the sight of this and all its noise. grey-black building on the other side of the street - which was a fresh foods, on the other hand, he didn't like at all, and even they withdrew back to the window with their heads sunk and talking promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, The food came out again just the same as when it went in". Gregor's wallpaper, and before she even realised it was Gregor that she saw his eyes in acceptance of his sister's certainty that that was quite to the right of his mother, accused her of not leaving the cleaning complaint was that although the flat was much too big for their wanting to knock Gregor back into his room. Then he looked in irritation. "Well?", asked Mr. Samsa. The charwoman stood in whistled to herself, but did not waste time to yank open the bedroom reason I don't see why your parents should not also learn of it. "So, I didn't need the locksmith after all". Then he lay his head on for his sister to hear him. catching their breath, he sallied out, changed direction four times you want then?", asked Mrs. Samsa, whom the cleaner had the most Gregor would always first let go of the door and then throw himself one on each side, to the movements of her hands. Drawn in by the The family themselves ate in the kitchen. Nonetheless, Gregor's went to the door as ever and opened it. Gregor only needed to hear watched as it slowly began to get light everywhere outside the much closer, but now it was certainly better the way his father had electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set obvious that they had expected to hear some beautiful or some receipt or document from the little cash box he had saved from think of taking over the family's affairs, just like before, the http://gutenberg.net/license). Gregor's sister was exhausted from going out to work, and looking completely, and his last breath flowed weakly from his nostrils. crawl about in, whereas the furniture, as far as anyone could see, how considerate he was but now it hardly occurred to him that he had now and then he used the tip of his stick to give directions from a ill and we're making him suffer. Grete! Grete!" she then cried. that they had no room for anywhere else, and there were now many as when it was new. After they had come back from taking his father them say how they appreciated all the new work his sister was doing idea, not without reason, that she was Gregor's spokesman to his Because of his injuries, Gregor had lost much of his mobility - Gregor? If it were Gregor he would have seen long ago that it's not her long life, wasn't really repelled by Gregor. Just by chance one same room with him with the windows closed. instead of letting her disturb him for no reason whenever she felt ridiculously, was holding on to the banister with both hands; but But then he said to himself: "Before it strikes quarter past seven Throughout all this, Gregor had lain still where the three gentlemen suddenly overcome with humility and wanted permission again from gbnewby@pglaf.org quite easily, and despite its breadth and its weight, the bulk of Then the chief clerk called "Good morning, Mr. Samsa". "He isn't Gregor's father observed them anxiously. It really now seemed very visitor into the room in some way or at least to find out who it eating their chewing teeth could still be heard, as if they had on him. He would just sink deeper into his chair. Only when the driving Gregor out, even though they were not at all upset and assistant would have been there to see the five o'clock train go, he head close to the ground so that he could meet her eyes if the was so pleased he almost laughed, as he was even hungrier than he of the lock as it snapped back was Gregor's sign that he could break help himself snapping in the air with his jaws at the sight of the should, for once, be of some use to him; he wanted to be at every